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Daily Media Digest October 13, 2020

USask research teams awarded $345,000 for COVID-19 mental health projects USask “Two University of Saskatchewan (USask)-led research teams have been awarded a total of $345,064 in federal funding to expand the reach of innovative digital […]

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Daily Media Digest October 9, 2020

Wastewater tracking shows COVID-19 doubled in past month in Ottawa The Ottawa Citizen “Researcher and uOttawa engineering professor Robert Delatolla, who developed the program along with MacKenzie and others at CHEO, said he is optimistic […]

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Daily Media Digest October 8, 2020

Is rapid testing the solution to Canada’s 2nd wave? Globalnews.ca “Christine Nielsen, the CEO of the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science, talks about the measures being taken to clear a massive backlog …” TAGS: […]

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Daily Media Digest October 7, 2020

Canadian researchers begin clinical trials of tuberculosis vaccine for COVID-19 CTV News “The University Health Network in Toronto announced on Monday that it has begun the first Canadian trial of the Bacillus Calmette–Guerin (BCG) …” […]

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Daily Media Digest October 6, 2020

COVID Alert app is another tool to help in battle against virus, microbiologist says CBC.ca “Jason Kindrachuk, assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Emerging Viruses at the University of Manitoba, says the app could […]

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Daily Media Digest October 2, 2020

UM part of national study on COVID-19 antibodies in older adults UM Today News A $4-million investment from Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force will launch a national study to investigate the burden of SARS-CoV-2 infection […]

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Daily Media Digest October 1, 2020

Canada has approved a 15-minute COVID test. But the lineups will still go on for hours Toronto Star “Dr. Andrew Morris, an infectious disease specialist at Sinai Health and University Health Network, called the approval […]